Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-12-15

THREE men were killed and several In
jured by the explosion of locomotive OF
the Inter-Colonial railroad at Steerlarton
Station, N. s., recently.
Wool growers and dealers met in con
vention at Washington on the 5th to con
slider the depressed condition of the indus
try.
ALARMING reports were received recent
ly in Little Rock Of the spread OF black
diphtheria in Clay and adjoining counties
of Arkansas. Local physicians were una
BILE to control the disease.
STEVENSON BROTHERS saloon at Cutler
Ind, was blown up with giant powder on
the 4th, being completely wrecked.
EIGHT of the persons who attended the
famous midnight meeting Of Nationalist
at Woodford, ireland, have been sentenced
to various terms Of Imprisonment
THE cases agains: the alleged Missouri
Pacific train wreckers, Geers, Leary and
Lloyd were dismissed at Wyandottc, Kan,
on the 5th.
A PAN-ANGLICAN Protestant Episcopal
Synod has been called to meet at Lambeth.
England, July next to discuss church and
secular matters.
CHARLES E. HENRY, the murderer Of the
actress Fife Moore, at Denver. Col, was
admitted to bail in so, 900 on the 9Th.
FREDERICK RILEY. an incorrigible boy OF
ten years, fatally burned child of four
years in St Joseph's Home at Jersey City,
N. j., recently. The child was held on a
red-hot stove until the oder OF burning
flesh aroused the nuns.
COINCIDENT with the announcement OF
the opening Of the Chicago, Milwaukee e.
st. Paul extension to Kansas City, a re-
port was started that the road had entered
into a traffic agreement with the Union
Pacific.
ANOTHER destructive explosion Of dyna-
mite occurred recently on the new Pittston
branch Of the Lehigh Valley railroad. Sec
tion Foreman Miles Sweeny, of Philadel-
phia, was instantly killed and FIVE Italian
laborers were severely injured. An unex-
time.
vicinity of Reading, Pa, nine head having
died in one day recently.
In the United States District Court at
Galveston, Tex, Judge Sabln rendered a
decision in the habeas corpus case of Rob
ert c. Stockton, a drummer for a Kansas
City firm, releasing him from the custody
Of the State authorities for his refusal TO
pay the drummers' occupation tax of $50
per year.
RUSSIAN troops were reported concen-
trating on the Austrian frontier on the 9th
and it was believed that war was inevita-
bic. Considerable excitement existed in
Berlin, Government stocks taking decided
fall.
By the explosion of a boiler at Hagans-
vile, Ca, the other day, three negroes
were killed.
JOHN GREEN & Co., wholesale dry goods
merchants of London, Ont, have failed
with $50, 600 liabilities. The cause was the
suspension of the Bank of Losdon.
THE missing lake steamer Gilchrist has
turned up all right at Detour, Mich.
Two men were killed and two fatally in
jured by the fall of heavy coal hosting
machine at Port Richmond. Pa, the other
day.
The journeymcn BARRIERS in convention
at Buffalo, N. Y, adjourned on the 9TH,
having perfected a National organization.
w. & Fl. CHALMERS, dealers in linens in
New York City and Dundee, Scotland, have
assigned for 100000, and Isaac Hayes, a
wholesale liquor dealer of New York, has
gone under, 1926. O)O liabilities.
A GENERAL conference under the auspices
of the Evangelical Alliance of the United
States commenced at Washington on the
7th. President Dodge called the meeting
to order.
ONE man was killed and three injured by
a collision between a freight engine and
part of its train near Port Hudson, Mich,
the other night.
THE Royal Mail Steamship lines steamer
Isla De Panay. which left Liverpool Nov
ember % for Manila and Singapore, was
ashore nine miles north OF Sagres,
Portugal. Seven of her crew were
drowned. She was a vessel Of $500 tons.
TIE indictment against William Kissane
Rogers, charged with forgery on the
Chemical Bank, of New York, has been
dismissed. The forgery took place many
years ago Kissane hid in California and
became wealthy.
GREL Bros grocery and other build
ings in Montgomery, Ala, were destroyed
by fire on the morning OF the 9TH. Loss,
$3.50, OcO.
TIE Buckeye Touring mill of NJ. W. An
derson at Portsmouth, O., burned the other
night. A falling wall crushed NJ. W. An
derson, the owner, and fireman named
William Simpson. Both were killed. Three
other men were dangerously injured. The
mill was valued at 1000
EUROPEAN financiers did not attach any
Importance to the Austrian press predic
tions of trouble because Of the concentra
ton of Russian troops in Poland, and there
were free purchases at the reductions.
ADDITIONAL. DISPATCHES.